Puzzle 15

Hillside vineyards giving red and white wines.

Gulf of __, Central American inlet.

Snappy comic poem with the rhyme structure AABBA.

Showy, frivolous; trifling thing of no consequence.

Name of an early plastic invented around the 1900s.

Stage name of early rap star Melvin Glover.

Elena Cornaro __, first woman to receive a PhD.

Thought represented graphically.

Radio cast of Secombe, Milligan, Sellers, Bentine.

Levels of this stress hormone rise during sleep.

A protagonist lacking traditional heroic qualities.